It is an urban legend that reloading "saves" anything.
You need to amortize the equipment cost.
You also need to factor-in your hours. You could be flipping burgers at McDonalds for minimum wage instead.
Reloading gives you the opportunity to create extremely high precision ammo. This is mostly relevant for rifle shooting of 1000 yards or more.
For 99.999999% of the population, quality boxed retail ammo is more than sufficient.
This is hands down the most moronic statement I read by know-it-all non-handloaders. Funny they think you need to attach a dollar figure to time spent handloading, but I bet none of them calculates how much it costs per hour to sit on their butts watching TV, aimlessly pecking away at the keyboard, fishing, hunting or playing golf.You also need to factor-in your hours. You could be flipping burgers at McDonalds for minimum wage instead.
BS. I would just as soon load as shoot. Handloading is my hobby. I don't calculate my time when I play golf, watch football, fish, or any other of my hobbies. Why would I do it for handloading?
I get an immense amount of satisfaction from crafting my own handloads.
Yep sure do, they're rated for 1900 or 1950 FPSmorrow, I wish I'd been into reloading when I had my M1 Carbine...when the surplus dried up, it was no longer cheap to shoot, and I foolishly traded it away. BTW, just out of curiosity, do you use the Berry's plate 110 grain bullet for that cartridge?
No, it's not. I shoot 50 rounds of .45 acp every week. When I shot factory rounds, it cost me $15-20 per week. These days, it costs me $5-6.It is an urban legend that reloading "saves" anything.
Easily done. And I came out ahead a long time ago.You need to amortize the equipment cost.
No, not really...handloading is a hobby. If your hobby is something you enjoy doing, and you are saving money at the same time, so much the better.You also need to factor-in your hours. You could be flipping burgers at McDonalds for minimum wage instead.
Really? To use your own estimates, "99.9999%" of shooters do not shoot at 1000 yards.Reloading gives you the opportunity to create extremely high precision ammo. This is mostly relevant for rifle shooting of 1000 yards or more.
If this were true, then .00000001 of the population would reload. Hmmm..lets do some math.For 99.999999% of the population, quality boxed retail ammo is more than sufficient.
My equipment was amortized the day I bought it. I also purchased enough components to break even compared to factory ammo cost.You need to amortize the equipment cost.
Haha, no. Reloading is something you can do at home w/e you want, stop w/e you want, and call in sick w/e you want with no repercussions. I'll go several weeks or months without reloading, and then one day I'll sit down and make some ammo when I feel like it. So no, you can't compare it to even a minimum wage job. Tell me how much money you can make sitting at home filling out internet surveys and signing up for free drawings, and then you have something to compare to. I'm pretty sure you can factor in that piddling amount, and we're all still saving money for our time.You also need to factor-in your hours. You could be flipping burgers at McDonalds for minimum wage instead.
I am the 00.000001%.For 99.999999% of the population, quality boxed retail ammo is more than sufficient.
For 99.999999% of the population, quality boxed retail ammo is more than sufficient
+ 1A few weeks ago my adult son and I went out into the desert for the day for some plinking. We went through about 600 rounds of various calibers. There is no finer pleasure in life for a man that spending time alone with your adult son doing something you both enjoy. I could savor that time and enjoy it to its fullest with no nagging thoughts about how much is was costing me.
THAT is priceless.